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`Peng Lim
`1074 Los Trancos Road, Portola Valley, CA 94028
`Phone: (415) 416-8478 Email: peng@amplims.com
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`PROFILE
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` Comprehensive experience as corporate board member, CEO, President and head of
`worldwide product development for public and private companies.
` Entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 corporate senior-level executive in mobile computing,
`consumer electronics, wireless communications, green technology, instrumentation and ODM
`(Original Design Manufacturer) industries.
` Accomplished leader with proven track record of developing products that captured No. 1
`worldwide market shares in PDA, pen-based devices, handheld operating systems, wireless
`devices and portable computer industries.
` Proven ability to lead organizations through growth strategy, critical start up, successful
`turnaround and IPO. Strong motivator and team player with established record of success in
`identifying new and emerging business opportunities. Expert in breakthrough new product
`development, global partnerships, domestic and international product/business development.
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`PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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`2012 to Present
`Founder, President and CEO, Amplim, Menlo Park, CA
` Launched the consumer electronics company and shipped products within 8 months. Doubled
`revenue from 2013 to 2014.
` Produced high quality and ease of use products that consistently received 4-star to 5-star
`reviews on Amazon.
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`2006 to 2012
`Board Chairman and CEO, MTI, Albany, NY
` Turned around MTI from an annual loss of $3.46/share in 2006 to profits of $0.48/share in
`2011. Revenue grew 43% in 2011. Promoted to Chairman and CEO after joining the company
`as President.
` Awarded US Department of Energy (DOE) alternative energy programs three years in a row.
`MTI Micro was the only micro fuel cell manufacturer to receive an award under this program.
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`2007 to 2010
`Member, Board of Advisors, Inventec Appliances Corp., Taipei, Taiwan
` Advisor to CEO on company strategic direction, customer interface and product strategy.
`Inventec Appliances is one of the largest ODMs in the mobile consumer electronics industry.
`The company manufactures Apple iPODs, Texas Instruments scientific calculators, Palm
`PDAs, Tom-Tom GPS units, Cisco gateways, and other devices.
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`Member, Board of Directors, Novatel Wireless, San Diego, CA
`(Also a member of the Compensation and Corporate Governance Committees)
` Recruited to the company in 2001 after the collapse of the telecommunications industry.
`Actively involved in the business turn-around that dramatically improved the market
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`2001 to 2007
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`capitalization from $10M to $650M in 18 months. Helped strategize new product roadmap
`that established Novatel Wireless as a leading provider of mobile wireless broadband access
`solutions.
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`Founder, President, CEO and Board Member, Tapwave, Mountain View, CA
` Joint development with large Asian public companies such as Sony in Japan,
`TsinghuaTongfang in China, Inventec Appliances (IAC) in Taiwan, Sonokong in Korea and
`ECS in Singapore. Partnered with retail chains such as CompUSA and Fry’s Electronics in
`the USA and Dixons and PCWorld in the UK.
` Developed Zodiac, an innovative consumer electronics product that was awarded numerous
`accolades and industry awards, including: 1st place in PC Magazine’s “Last Gadget
`Standing” competition at CES 2004, Time Magazine’s “Best Gear 2003”, Handheld
`Computing’s “Most Innovative PDA for 2003”, Mobiletrax’s Mobility Award, CNET’s
`Editor’s Choice Award, PC World’s 2004 Next Gear Innovations Award, Popular Science’s
`BOWN (Best of What’s New) Award, and many other prestigious awards.
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`2001 to 2005
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`1999 to 2001
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`Vice President, Worldwide Product Development, Palm Inc. Santa Clara, CA
`Chairman, Palm Technology Co. (Shanghai)
` Reported to the CEO and served as a key member of the Executive Committee, Operations
`Council and Strategy Committee. A senior executive that led Palm to one of the largest
`technology IPO with market capitalization in excess of $53 billion.
` Responsible for strategic and daily operations of worldwide product development. Grew
`worldwide product development group from about 70 personnel to more than 500 strong in
`two years. Managed engineers, program managers, industrial designers, QA and product
`development staff in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, France and China. Managed
`$150 million annual development budget.
` Developed products that captured #1 worldwide market shares with 77% worldwide handheld
`operating system and PDA market shares. Palm held #1 market shares in US, Europe and
`Asia. Grew unit shipments sevenfold from 2 million to 13 million units.
` Introduced M500/M505, M100/M105, Palm V/Vx, Palm IIIc/IIIe/IIIse/IIIxe and Palm
`VII/VIIx; twelve industry leading and award winning handheld and wireless computers. Also
`responsible for PalmOS 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0.
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`1997 to 1999
`Vice President of Engineering, Fujitsu Personal Systems, Santa Clara, CA
`(A wholly owned subsidiary of $36 billion Fujitsu Limited, listed on the Tokyo Exchange)
` Reported to the CEO and served as a key member of the executive team. Responsible for
`development of strategic product roadmap to meet company objectives.
` Managed product development and engineering from concepts to production for worldwide
`and domestic sales. Managed engineering teams in the USA and Japan.
` Introduced industry-leading and award winning pen-based and wireless computers that
`captured 55% worldwide market-shares (Number one positions in the US and Europe.) These
`products contributed to record revenue and profits for Fujitsu Personal Systems.
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`1996 to 1997
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`Engineering Platform Director, Texas Instruments Inc., Temple, TX
` Responsible for platform development of TI TravelMate high-end portable products. Led
`development team to identify and select ODM partners from Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
` Introduced TM6160, the first notebook computer to include a high-speed 56Kbps internal
`modem with X2 technology which was also one of the world’s first notebook computers to
`incorporate a MMX 166 MHz Pentium.
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`Director, Advanced Portables Engineering, Zenith Data Systems (ZDS), Buffalo Grove, IL
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`1993 to 1996
`(A $1.3 billion major computer company and subsidiary of $5.5 billion Groupe Bull Company)
` Promoted to Director, Advanced Portables Engineering after 20 months as Director, Mobile
`Systems Engineering. Simultaneously built and grew the organizations for the mobile system
`and portable computer groups. Managed more than 100 engineers in Illinois and Michigan.
` Introduced Z-Note GT. This product was named 1995 Fall Comdex Best-of-Show finalist and
`awarded The Perfect Mobile Office by PC Today.
` Produced CruisePad; the world’s first wireless-LAN (Wi-Fi) mobile terminal. This product
`was selected for demonstration at the G7 (Group of the seven most-industrialized countries)
`Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, 1995. It was also voted “Best Wireless
`LAN Product” by Mobile Insights ‘95, “Best Product” by VAR Vision and awarded Gold
`Medal by PC User.
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`Director of Engineering, Dauphin Technology, Lombard, IL
`Project Engineer, Cherry Electrical Products, Waukegan, IL
`Electrical Engineer, Prodigy Inc., Sylvan Lake, Michigan
`Engineering Intern, Michem Electronics, Windsor, Ontario
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`1984 to 1993
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`EDUCATION
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`Stanford University, Stanford Executive Program, Graduate School of Business
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`Northwestern University, Master of Engineering Management
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`University of Windsor, BS and MS in Electrical Engineering
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`1998
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`1991
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`1985 to 1987
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`LANGUAGES
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` English, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese and Malay. US Citizen
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`PATENTS
`1 6,262,719
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`2 6,137,473
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`Mouse emulation with a passive pen
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`System and method for switching control between a host computer and a
`remote interface device
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`3 D385,857
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`Portable remote interface device